Hi all,
I’m at breaking point and I don’t know how I’m meant to keep going.
I work in school leadership and the workload/scrutiny is relentless. Every week I have:
- weekly line management meetings with senior leadership
- weekly meetings with a highly senior staff member
- weekly check-ins with a member of staff who operates across all schools
- constant demands for advanced planning that no one shows me how to do, schemes of work, planning documents and all other manner of documents
- constant scrutiny over everything I do (even how I phrase emails)
- additional issues landing on my desk or a staff member on my team having digs at me and emailing them to my superiors
inherited department problems such as poor attitudes. Me being spoken to like a piece of shit too. Then expected to take it.
It no longer feels supportive — it feels like pressure and undermining.
I’m going. But honestly, I feel mentally and physically exhausted. I dread work every day and I’m struggling to sleep or cope.
How do I get through the next few weeks without having a breakdown? Do I push through until March, or go off sick? Any advice appreciated. I’m also made to feel like I’m letting the children down if I’m off. Everyone just has a very bad attitude here and the poor manners just shock me. They’re just so nasty and toxic. I feel like I’m suffocating.